Tag Archives: Host

Host Site for Medical Teams: Safe Homes for Children

Posted by Laura on October 21, 2010 Comments Off

Safe Homes for Children has a small, four room clinic in Los Rolbes [1 km from Godinez], San Andres, Solola, Guatemala. They also do feeding and educational programs in many remote Mayan communities. They are in the middle of 1.5 million Mayans, most of whom are in desperate need of medical care, dental care and nutritional care. Many have [...]

Profile: ASSCA (Social Services Association – German Cooperative)

Posted by Laura on July 16, 2010 Comments Off

ASSCA (Social Services Association – German Cooperative) is a non-profit institution that, through scientific cooperation has brought preventive and curative healthcare, along with other forms of development, to the neediest Guatemalan communities. These services have been delivered through the use of human capital and technology. The vision of ASSCA is to become one of the [...]

Profile: Clinica Comunitaria Daniel Comboni

Posted by Laura on June 1, 2010 Comments Off

The Clinica Comunitaria Daniel Comboni (Daniel Comboni Community Clinic) located in Mixco, Guatemala, provides health, dental, and educational services. The clinic reaches out to the large population of indigenous people living in poverty and extreme poverty in Mixco by offering health and dental services for a nominal fee. Education and nutrition programs provide the people [...]

Profile: Primeros Pasos

Posted by Laura on May 20, 2010 Comments Off

Primeros Pasos is a clinic in rural Guatemala that has a comprehensive outlook on health care. With the collaboration of health professionals, health educators, volunteers, and community leaders, Primeros Pasos offers quality and affordable health care and health education to the rural, underserved communities of the Palajunoj Valley of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Primeros Pasos works in [...]

Profile: Kids Alive

Posted by Laura on May 5, 2010 Comments Off

Kids Alive International is a Christian faith mission dedicated to rescuing orphans and vulnerable children – meeting their spiritual, physical, educational and emotional needs. Kids Alive provides children with the love and care every child deserves, and raises them to be contributing members of their society and witnesses to their family and community. The Oasis: [...]

Announcement: The Moore Center for Surgery

Posted by Laura on April 5, 2010 Comments Off

In 2008, The Shalom Foundation purchased a medical facility in Guatemala City. The Moore Center for Surgery will be the base of operations for their Medical Missions Initiative and will serve as a point of light for the local community and beyond. The surgery center is located in Zone 1 of Guatemala City, a location that [...]

Profile: Ak’Tenamit

Posted by Laura on March 23, 2010 Comments Off

Ak’ Tenamit means “New Village” in the Q’eqchi Mayan language, because their organization is transforming life in the Q’eqchi villages of eastern Guatemala. Those villages are located around the Río Dulce, far from the nearest road – most are reached by a boat trips and hikes through the rain forest – and they lack electricity, [...]

Profile: Safe Homes for Children

Posted by Laura on March 16, 2010 Comments Off

Safe Homes for Children is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation set up to support Casa de Sion, an orphanage in Los Robles near Panajachel. On 17 acres of farmland, they have a 2500 sq. ft. building that is used for their orphanage. They take street children as well as children whose parents cannot afford to feed or [...]

Profile: Comunidad Nueva Alianza

Posted by Laura on March 15, 2010 Comments Off

Comunidad Nueva Alianza is an organic coffee and macadamia plantation owned and operated by a cooperative of forty Guatemalan families, located in a sub-tropical area 1000 meters above sea level 45 minutes north of the coastal town of Retalhuleu. The community is nestled amongst a 300 acre plantation of organic coffee and macadamia trees where [...]

Profile: Long Way Home

Posted by Laura on March 15, 2010 Comments Off

Long Way Home’s (LWH) mission as a 501(c)(3) is to break the cycle of poverty among youth in developing communities by creating educational opportunities, cultivating civic interaction, and encouraging healthy lifestyles. Education, Employment, and Breaking the Cycle of Poverty: The intergenerational benefits of the opportunities provided by education have broken the cycle of dependency and [...]

Profile: Lemonade International

Posted by Laura on March 4, 2010 Comments Off

There is an estimated 60,000 – 100,000 people living in La Limonada, and urban slum community built into a ravine that runs through Guatemala City. It was established in the late 1950’s by people who fled other areas of the country for various reasons. People settled there and built homes in the ravine because they [...]

Profile: Life of Hope

Posted by Laura on March 2, 2010 Comments Off

Life of Hope Ministries exists to rescue the street children of Latin America. They partner with existing ministry organizations that provide for the educational, emotional, physical, and spiritual welfare of street children and high risk families. They seek partnerships with other organizations with similar goals in an effort to expand the scope of their mission [...]

Profile: Faith In Action Ministries

Posted by Laura on February 26, 2010 Comments Off

Faith In Action (FIA) is a 501(c)(3) Christian organization designed to target isolated, remote people who have become lost and stagnant within their developing country. They primarily focus on mountainous highlands and the swampy waterways of Rio Dulce in Guatemala, Central America. Faith in Action takes the Good News into communities that have no church [...]

Profile: Orphan Outreach

Posted by Laura on February 17, 2010 Comments Off

Orphan Outreach is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to glorifying the Lord through reaching out to the millions of at risk children throughout the world. Since their founding in 2007, they have acted as instruments of Christ impacting the lives of those they serve. Ministering primarily in Guatemala, Honduras, India, and Russia, they support a [...]

Profile: Range of Motion Project

Posted by Marian on January 26, 2010 Comments Off

The mission of the non-profit Range of Motion Project (ROMP) is to provide no-cost prosthetic limbs and orthotic devices in developing countries. ROMP recognizes the hardship of living in poverty without a prosthetic or orthotic device and understands how important these, often times simple devices, are to those who do not have access to them. [...]

Profile: Partners in Development

Posted by Laura on January 21, 2010 Comments Off

Serving the Poorest of Poor in Developing Countries Partners in Development, Inc. (PID) strives to help the extreme poor attain independence and whole life improvement. PID combines a variety of programs to achieve community transformation in places where hope is often lost in the cycle of poverty. Through child sponsorships, small business loans, housing opportunities [...]

Announcement: New Clinic in Santa Maria de Jesus

Posted by Marian on January 11, 2010 Comments Off

Guatemala SANA is currently constructing a clinic in the town of Santa Maria de Jesus. This lovely facility focuses on an underserved population, and will host traveling groups, beginning in October of 2010. The group is hoping to raise $305,000 to cover all the costs of the construction, labor, permits and licenses, land, furnishing, medical [...]

Profile: Salomon’s Porch

Posted by Laura on January 3, 2010 Comments Off

Porch de Salomon is a response to God calling a family into a life of love and service in Panajachel, Guatemala, by developing a multi-faceted ministry to reach not only the large population of expatriates, but to help mobilize the volunteer teams and individuals who come to minister to the indigenous population as well. Solomon’s [...]

Profile: Clínica Dental / Río Dulce – UPDATED

Posted by Laura on December 13, 2009 Comments Off

This project, run jointly by the Anacortes (Washington) Rotary Club and Club Rotario de la Asunción of Guatemala, began in the early 1990’s and provides year-round dental service to very poor Queqchi Mayan people living in remote areas of eastern Guatemala. Volunteers serve for a minimum of ten days (although the group prefers a longer [...]

Profile: Agape in Action

Posted by Laura on December 7, 2009 Comments Off

Agape in Action, Inc. is a tax exempt, nonprofit 501(c)(3) public charity organization with headquarters located just outside of Houston, Texas. They conduct rural medical clinics in impoverished areas of the Quiché region. Clinics are held in churches, schools, and on occasion, in an actual medical facility, or where the need arises. Their mission is [...]

Profile: The Shalom Foundation

Posted by Laura on December 1, 2009 Comments Off

The Shalom Foundation is dedicated to providing humanitarian assistance and financial support to underprivileged children and their families with a focus on Christian values and service. The Shalom Foundation is supported through contributions from private citizens, businesses, churches and foundations. The Medical Program: The Medical Program is one of The Shalom Foundation’s most important [...]

Profile: Boca Costa Medical Mission

Posted by Laura on September 22, 2009 Comments Off

Boca Costa Medical Mission is a group of medical clinics, maintained and staffed by medical missionaries that serve the Indigenous people of Southwestern Guatemala. The team has been working in Guatemala since 2003. The base clinic, in the village of Paquila, in the department of Sololá, is about 1 ½ hours south of Quetzaltenango and about [...]

Profile: Behrhorst Partners for Development & Behrhorst Clinic

Posted by Laura on September 18, 2009 Comments Off

The mission of the Behrhorst Partners for Development (BPD) is to strengthen and expand processes of community development and participation that enhance people’s lives. It has two major goals: To support sustainable development initiatives that improve the health and well-being of particularly vulnerable sectors of society. To promote through experience-based education an understanding of the [...]

Profile: Hospitalito Atitlán

Posted by Laura on September 14, 2009 Comments Off

Hospitalito Atitlán (HA) is a small, private, non-profit hospital serving a population of 43,000 Tz’utujil Maya on the southern shore of beautiful Lake Atitlán. Local physicians, nursing, and administrative staff work closely in collaboration with volunteer medical personnel from around the world to provide a comprehensive scope of care, including the only 24/7 emergency and [...]

Profile: Pop Wuj Clinic